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After taking home the much-coveted LMSS Surgical Case Presentation Cup earlier this year, Student Doctor Becky Waite had the chance to present at the Liverpool North West Surgical Society annual meeting this December.
Becky is in Year 5 of the MBChB programme, currently based at Arrowe Park Hospital where she is Training Team Lead (TTL) for her placement group, acting as a key figure in working with staff and students to continuously optimise the course and student experience.
“I have always felt very passionately about speaking up for the needs of fellow students and trying to help enact positive change. This is my second year as a TTL and I enjoy being able to liaise with staff to help students in any small way I can.
I have also been working with the School and the Guild on finding ways to accommodate reasonable adjustments in our clinical exams for students with a range of disabilities and neurodivergencies, which is a cause I feel very strongly about.”
She says of her win,
"This all started in March 2024 when I entered the LMSS surgical case presentation evening. I was halfway through fourth year and starting to seriously consider surgery as a future career path, so I thought entering this competition would look good on my portfolio.
I decided to present the case of a rare carotid body tumour that I saw on my third year vascular surgery rotation at Chester as I thought it raised some interesting learning points about how the resection of rare tumours can carry greater risk due to surgeons’ limited exposure to them.
I had also been asked by the consultant on the ward at the time to give some teaching on this topic at their weekly teaching session, so I had already read around the case.
The other students presented some really interesting cases that evening, but to my delight and surprise, I won the LMSS Surgical Case Presentation Cup!
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Mr Taylor (Consultant Trauma Surgeon and Surgical Case panel lead) then got in touch with me a few weeks later, offering the additional ‘prize’ of the opportunity to present my winning case at the Liverpool & Northwest Society of Surgeons Annual Meeting this December, which I gladly accepted.
The meeting was a really fun experience and a valuable opportunity to meet trainees and surgeons from a range of specialties, with the added bonus that I can now add a regional presentation to my portfolio!”
Congratulations to on both fronts!
Discover more
- The LMSS Surgical Case Presentation Evening will run again in February. Submit your abstract by 1st February.
- Passionate about surgery? Why not give these societies a try - Liverpool Fetal Medicine and Surgery Society (LFMSS), Liverpool General Surgical Society, Surgical Scousers, Women in Surgery Society (WinS).